The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-04
LATEST NEWS.
Dates TO April 26th inclusive by the
Australia.


ton of non-intercourse with Canada on the,
basis of the Edniunds bill IS regarded by
the Administration as almost inevitable.
| The Pope has advised that a Catholic
University for America be founded. The
suggestion is contained in Papal brief adj
dressed to Bishop Keane, of Richmond,
Va.
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation
Com any's property has been leased to the
Union Pacific.
The religious celebration of the Jubilee
service at Westminster Abbey will cost the
country 10000 ($1O0 OO0), and good deal
of dissatisfaction is expressed at the con-
templated expense.
James g. Blaine had improved in health.
He was in Chicago at latest date.
It is generally thought that Gladstone's
attack upon Mr.. Goschen's financial plans
| will cause the Government to modify its
local loan proposals relative to the tobacco
| duty, but it is believed that the main
features of the sinking fund and income tax
reductions will be maintained.
The division on the motion to go into
committee on the Coercion bill in the
British House of Commons was expected
to be taken on April 18th.
A Washington special says: George
Gray, attorney for the Northern Pacific
Railway, is advised that the Canadian Pa
cific has begun to carry sugar from the
Pacific Coast to st. Paul at much lower
rates than those which prevail on American
lines.
Trouble is growing out of the Schnaebele
affair. 1t is stated that Won Leyden, the
German Charge d'Affairs, has informed
| NJ Flourens, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
that Bismarck regretted that the Leipsic
! Court had ordered the arrest of Schnaebele
without consulting the Chancellor, for an
| offense concerning which Bismarck re-
versed his opinion. The Pope has offered
his mediation between France and Ger
many in this affair. Schnaebele was on
French territory when arrested by Ger
mans. He is in prison.
SANKEY'S expedition to relieve Emin Bey
had reached Leopoldville, in the Congo
Free State.
The loss. of the American ship ST.
| ,O0
the Pacific Coast is confirmed. She foun-
dered with all on board off Cape Beal
| April 1st.
The Liberal Belgian press violently at
tack the arrangement made by Stanley
with Tippu lib on behalf of King Leopold.
They compare it to the conduct of Napol-
con in employing the famous criminal
fha of fhn
police, and assert that Tippu lib is merely
nominated Governor of Stanley Falls to
supply the Congo Free State with slaves
for the construction of railway.
A New York dispatch says: individuals
and corporations claiming to represent up
ward of $40, 900 900 of Broadway property
are attaching their names to a mammoth
petition which they are going to send to
Albany, against the proposed elevated rail-
road Job. The people who are pushing the
job do not trust to petitions, which they
well know nobody at Albany ever reads,
and private dispatches from Albany init
mate that the Senate Committee on Rail-
roads, which has been hearing arguments
pro and con, will certainly report in their
favor.
An American fishing schooner, Hattie
Maud, was chased by the Canadian cruiser
Vigilant off Grand Manan, but got away
from her pursuers. <
Cholera has appeared at Guaymas, Mex
leo, on the Pacific Coast, and California is
to establish strict quarantine against it.
Cholera has travelled steadily northward
since its appearance in the Argentine Re-
public
that the mind of the Empress is affected
by the nervous strain of her present life of
apprehension, and that her mind has be-
come affected her mental condition being
similar to that of her sister, the Duchess
of Cumberland.
Montreal is flooded owing to an ice dam
opposite Longere point. r
Referring to the dispatch from Lincoln,
Neb., saying that Patrick Eagan feared
that detectives were endeavoring to secure
specimens of his handwriting for the use
of the London "Times', and the English
Loyal Union. and another from Omaha
saying that operators from the Scotland
Yard or American detectives hired for the
purpose are shadowing the leaders of the
Clan ma Gael and other Irish societies, an
evening paper publishes interviews with
several detective agencies of Chicago, all of
whom uniformly deny any connection with
the matter, saying that they did not want
business of a political character One of
them, however, asserted that he knew it
to be fact that the English Government
for some time past has. had a number of
secret service operators working in this
country.
The Manitobans talk of rebellion and an
nexation to the United States
FIGURING mills at Fermoy Ireland, were
burned April 22d. Loss, 100000.
Gladstone writes that he does not desire
another election to Parliament until the
English mind is as ripe on the Irish cues
ton as the Welsh and Scotch minds are.
but that that time is rapidly, advancing.
"AnYhGw," he says, 81 am prepared to
face anything to defeat coercion. 1 con-
tinue to hope for much from vigorous &C.
ton on the part of the constituencies whose
representatives in Parliament have do